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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences.
Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Jan 23, 2024 · 2024 Doomsday Clock Announcement. January 23, 2024. This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves the hands of the Doomsday Clock unchanged due to ominous trends that continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. READ THE 2024 STATEMENT. DOOMSDAY CLOCK CONVERSATIONS.
Current Time - 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Jan 23, 2024 · Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the ...
Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?
16 hours ago · Nuclear fusion as a source of electricity always seems to be just around the corner. As the old joke goes, “Thirty years ago, fusion was 30 years away from becoming a viable commercial reality”—a comment borne out in the Bulletin’s own pages, if not precisely on a 30-year timescale.. In 1971, physicist Richard Post of what was then the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory published a Bulletin ...
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Doomsday Dashboard - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Overview Current Time FAQ Timeline Dashboard Multimedia Virtual Tour Recent Highlights Why the United States should join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Turn back the Clock: The nuclear ban treaty is entering into force The responsibility to protect and the nuclear ban treaty Nine hurdles to reviving the Iran nuclear deal Recent … Continued
Events | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Join us on March 6 for this exciting in-person program featuring Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy, Katharine Hayhoe, Moving forward together: A climate scientist's vision for collaboration, moderated by Bulletin President and CEO, Rachel Bronson.. We'll discuss how it's possible to mobilize collective action against the climate change problem despite our differences.
United States nuclear weapons, 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic …
May 7, 2024 · United States nuclear weapons, 2024. By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight | May 7, 2024. The United States has embarked on a wide-ranging nuclear modernization program that will ultimately see every nuclear delivery system replaced with newer versions over the coming decades. In this issue of the Nuclear Notebook ...
Nuclear Notebook - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Since 1987, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the Nuclear Notebook, an authoritative accounting of world nuclear arsenals compiled by top experts from the Federation of American Scientists. Today, it is prepared by Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, and Mackenzie Knight of FAS. Because of its importance to …
Fusion: The Uncertain Certainty - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
1 day ago · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with a clock reading 90 seconds to midnight. The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse. An artist’s conception of a 1,000 megawatt mirror machine fusion reactor with a direct energy converter, as it appeared on the cover of the Bulletin in October, 1971.